UAB Jazz Ensemble
The UAB Jazz Ensemble is made up of a select group of students chosen by audition at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The group has a long tradition of excellence and has placed first in the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame Competition three of the last five years. In 2013 they premiered a new big band arrangement of Harry Belafonte’s Turn the World Around for his induction into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. The group has played for and with such great jazz artists as Sean Jones, Allen Vizzutti, and Kirk Whalum. In the summer of 2016 UAB Jazz finished their third European tour performing in Austria, Italy, German, and Switzerland. This fall they will do a performance tour of the country of Colombia highlighted by a feature concert at the SeviJazz Festival.
UAB Chamber Singers
UAB Concert Choir
Computer Music Ensemble
The UAB Computer Music Ensemble is an advanced music technology performance group under the direction of Dr. Matthew Scott Phillips. The members of the ensemble compose and perform computerized, computer assisted, and electro-acoustic music.